Create Your Way

Whatever music you imagine, the new Finale can bring it to life, more quickly and easily than ever before.

Now a full 64-bit application, the new Finale includes many under-the-hood enhancements resulting in improved performance. But that’s only half of the equation.

While Finale has always been recognized as the software that can create ANYTHING, the new Finale also streamlines your workflow so that you can create in a more intuitive and efficient manner.

Plus there are new ways to sync with other apps, new sounds, and better ways to share your music with others.

Take control of your music, your creative process, and your legacy.

Create your way with Finale.Easily arrange or compose publisher-quality music notation that plays back with world-class sounds, and share your creations with the world. From lead sheets and guitar tabs to band charts and orchestral scores, Finale empowers you to create anything you wish. What’s more, Finale accommodates your workflow, so you can also create anyway you wish.

Finale offers:

Note entry options---Play a MIDI keyboard, use a mouse and computer keyboard, or import a variety of file types.

More sounds---With more than 500 Garritan instruments and Human Playback, your music becomes a life-like performance.

Powerful features---Enjoy Linked Parts, Music Educator Resources, TempoTap, and many other innovative features.

Help Resources---Enjoy free technical support, video tutorials, and the industry's best Help resources.

Transposed note entry -- When inputting music into transposed staves, Finale plays the transposed pitch on entry as well as during playback.

Large time signatures -- While Finale has always been able to display very tall time signatures, in previous versions setting them up could be tricky. Not any more.

An incredible playback library -- The library of premium Garritan sounds included with Finale has been augmented with more than 100 new additions, including a stunning Concert D grand piano from the award winning Personal Orchestra 5.

New ARIA Player -- Now you can more easily and quickly select any instrument from Finale’s vast collection of Garritan sounds AND enjoy more control over the included convolution reverb.

ReWire support -- Finale users who also work with digital audio software have long wanted to be able to sync with these applications. ReWire makes it possible to press play in Digital Performer (for example) and have both DP and Finale playback in sync.

Improved Human Playback -- the feature that makes your music sound like humans are performing it now responds instantly when you press play.

Expanded MusicXML import and export -- You can share music with users of other software more accurately than ever before.

Connect with ReWire support

The new Finale includes ReWire support making it possible to use Finale simultaneously with top digital audio software including Digital Performer, ProTools and Logic.

Imagine you’ve created a pop tune in Logic and want to add a live horn section. With ReWire you can create the charts in Finale, press play in Logic, and hear both programs playback simultaneously – and remain in sync. You’ll hear how your horn parts work against the existing audio tracks – before the performers come into the studio to play them.

ReWire will also benefit anyone writing for film as it also allows you to synchronize with the video support found in programs like Digital Performer, ProTools and Logic.

Connecting with other programs is one more way Finale helps you create your way.

64-Bit Support and More

Finale is now a full 64-bit application. This means that you can take best advantage of the processing powers of modern computers.

It also ensures that Finale can maintain compatibility with future operating systems and makes it easier for Finale developers to improve your user experience more quickly.

Finale users utilizing high-end sound libraries know that many of these are 64-bit only. The new Finale will allow them to use these libraries directly in Finale, without any intervening 3rd party software AND allow them to load more samples into memory than ever before.

While a major undertaking, this 64-bit compatibility is just part of the forward-looking enhancements found in the new Finale. We’ve also overhauled Human Playback (today it responds instantly when you press playback) and expanded Finale’s MusicXML import and export so you can share music (back and forth) with users of other software more accurately than ever before. And of course you can share files with Finale 2014 without any conversion at all!

We put the work in, under the hood, so you can create your way.

New Garritan Sounds

Great playback sounds inspire not only our listeners, the inspire the creative process. When you hit play and the results exceed your expectations, you push harder, too.

The library of premium Garritan sounds included with Finale has been significantly augmented with more than 100 new additions, including a stunning Concert D grand piano from the award-winning Personal Orchestra 5, dozens of exotic world instruments, plus new keyboards, brass, woodwinds, choirs, strings, mixtures, percussion, and more.

Authorization

Compatibility

Finale family software can open files that were created in the same or older software version, but files created in a newer version cannot be opened in an older version unless converted via MusicXML. Finale offers the exception to this rule as it can also share files, back-and-forth with Finale 2014 and save Finale 2012-compatible files.